School Time!

This week Dravyn started school, and boy does she love it!  We are using Hands on Homeschooling from www.handsonhomeschooling.com.  I have had my eye on this particular curriculum for awhile and finally ordered it.  It got here on Tuesday, so this week we have tried to pick the big points and go for it because we were making up time from missing Monday.

Every morning she goes and gets her Bible and tells me it's time for school.  We read a story, this week was Jonah and the whale, and go over a bible verse, which she is still struggling with but to be fair apostle is a big word for a 2 year old.

There are lots of projects for each day, and baby girl is just loving everything.  Squares have been the focus this week. And she keeps telling me she wants to glue squares every time we have some down time.

Today's project of shaving cream squares did end up a little bit of a shaving cream skating rink, but I'm pretty sure it was the most hilarious thing I have ever seen her do.  She had lots of fun, clean up was easy and all the activities so far have been great for her.  I definitely will be updating with more posts of all her fun school activities!

Valentines Day 2014

This year was the first year that Dravyn "got" Valentines Day.  She kept telling me for almost two weeks before hand that "Valentines means card and balloon".  Her father snuck out the night before to make all her Valentines dreams come true.

First up was grandma's gifts.  Fun Doc McStuffins activities, candy, and a bracelet.

Then Daddy got to wow her.  Just look at the face when she got the card.

The balloon, oh the balloon. She loves that thing.  3 days later and she is still dragging it around the house all day.  After Kevin went to work she wanted to make cards for everyone so she picked 5 pieces of my card stock, one for each of us including herself.  She didn't want me to fold for her or cut for her so the coloring commenced. 

She gave all of them to her grandma and grandpa except for the one she kept for herself.  Kevin and I exchanged cards, ate dinner, and watched Gone in 60 Seconds.  It was exactly what I wanted though if our tradition continues I think I will need to get the movie on blu-ray.

I am so glad that Dravyn has such a great dad.  I am glad that she has someone to show her that "I love you" is not just something you say on Valentines Day.  I am glad that she is starting to understand holidays and that she is so great at sharing.  It is so exciting watching her grow and understand more, I just love the person she is becoming.

I'm Doing Alright.

I am not real fond of days like today.  I had a rough day yesterday and I woke up this morning, walked through the living room that was covered in Dravyn's toys to the kitchen where I pulled out a clean pan and started cooking breakfast around all the dirty dishes that were still there from dinner last night.  After we had eaten and my husband was off to work I was sitting on the couch with my daughter watching cartoons and I got to thinking.

That's when the trouble started.

Sometimes I hate my brain.  It always thinks things like "I am such a bad mother.", "I have no idea what I am doing", and the always popular. "I am never going to catch up".  That last one has been popping up my whole life.  I just keep thinking how am I ever going to figure out how to do this mom thing?  Thankfully that was when I remembered yesterday.

We built a bunch of stuff with her toys.  It took a lot of focus for her to build that "ice cream."

Then she wanted story time.  She read a dinosaur book to her baby all snuggled up in her bed.

Yes we probably watched a little too much Scooby-Doo and ate a little too much junk food.  But she had a good day.  She had fun, and we talked about letters and counted some of her building pieces.  And I decided this morning that I'm doing alright.  We are doing good.  And maybe I don't have a plan for the rest of her life, but I do have a plan for tonight.  It's called Macaroni and Cheese and it's a good plan.

New

Since my last post I haven't really had anything to blog about, but I have done a little redesign on the blog.  New title, new layout, new everything except post.  So here it is, what do you think? Just thought I would make sure everyone could still read this font, if you have any problems just let me know. I will try to have something to post about soon!

A post from yesterday.

Ok, really it is from today, but I planned to write it yesterday so....

I have a two and a half year old.  Her vocabulary is amazing, she can write a's and occasionally b's but only when she wants.  A couple days ago she found a bank statement that happened to be for her savings account.  When I told her it was her money she carried it around the house saying she wanted to go to Taco Bell and get a "burrito, one soft one, money bank account" so I suppose she is starting to realize you have to have money to get things.

The other day she followed me around telling me I was pretty, and beautiful, and smart.  I told her she is beautiful and smart and a good girl, the way I have hundreds of times before and I am glad that it is somewhere embedded in her mind.  I hope it stays there forever and whenever she feels that she is not enough she remembers that she is all those things and more.

Now the truth is that raising a two year old is not all fun and games, which I was reminded of while trying to take her two and a half year photos.  The only way she would sit for it was if I gave her camera to her so that she could take pictures too, easy enough and it created some cute photo ops anyway.

These last two years have flown by, here's to hoping they slow down a little.

 

 

2013: A Review

My 2013 summary goes a little like this.

In January we started the year with a one year old and a trip to Osceola cheese!

 

In February we had an awesomely beautiful snowfall.

 

Plus I got my certificate for finishing my Photography course with Penn Foster.

 

In March it was Easter and my 26th birthday.

 

In April we went to the NASCAR race and celebrated the husbands birthday.

 

 In May we planted a garden, went to Roaring River for the first time and went to Tennessee for the first time.

In June we went to Poplar Heights the living history farm and Dravyn took her first visit to the zoo on Father's Day.

 

In July we celebrated the Forth of July and Dravyn's second birthday.

In September we went to the dirt track for some racing, and went to the airport and saw airplanes, skydivers, and helicopters.  Dravyn and I also went with family to KC where she and Mattie had all kinds of fun playing.

I also completed my fist 5k!

In October we had the family campout and went to the cider mill lots of fun times in October.

In November we put up lights outside, and celebrated Thanksgiving twice.

December was all about Christmas, lights, music, Christmas music and gifts were all included.

I hope that 2014 is filled with even more adventures and time together.

As always I have fallen behind in my posting and have some catching up to do.  We had some illness, and then celebrated Thanksgiving.  On Thanksgiving we went to my grandparents house and spent time with my family.  We ate yummy food and went for a walk on the farm, which of course I forgot to take pictures of, but I did get this great one of baby girl and grandma.

 

 

Then the day after we celebrated at home with Kevin's parents and Dravyn cooked corn casserole and green bean casserole.  She did great and only stirred stuff out of the bowl about 18 times.  Then after we ate we all watched Red 2.  It was a fun Thanksgiving.

 

Of course there was decorating.  The first year we decorated the outside of the house. We also put up the tree, and we helped decorate at the church.

 

 Then we all got sick again, like miserable sick. Dravyn got one month closer to 3, and gave me many, many looks like this one.

 

The last weekend I somehow pulled off a very homemaker type weekend, which is usually something I fail miserably at.  However I managed to bake Christmas goodies, and we made ornaments for the tree, inspired by Pinterest of course.

 

 

I actually have all the shopping and wrapping done already.  Now I am just waiting for Christmas day.  I love Christmas morning and am looking forward to Dravyn getting her gifts.  I think that she is really going to enjoy this year.